The world began ushering in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed lockdowns and forced would-be revellers to extend […]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has alleged ransoms money are being used by terrorists to buy illegal arms. In a statement titled, “Our borders and insecurity” issued by the forum’s national chairman, Audu Ogbeh, on Thursday said the development was raised by some of its members from Sokoto and Zamfara states. The forum observed that […]
A one time former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has flown out for medical treatment abroad. Metuh who was recently released by an Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Wednesday, travelled outside the country for medical treatment on a protracted spinal cord ailment. Metuh arrived at […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, signed the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law . The brief signing ceremony was done inside the President ’ s office at the Presidential Villa , Abuja The National Assembly had last Monday passed the N 13. 58 trn budget for the next fiscal year. It has been the desire of […]
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu , has ordered all men of the Force in the state to enforce all protocols as highlighted by the Presidential Task Force on COVID -19. Odumosu instructed the police officers to enforce the 12am to 4am curfew imposed by the PTF as well as ensure the total closure […]
Second Republic politician and a foundation member of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Mallam Tanko Yakassai, has offered an insight into why the Northern Region opposed the first motion for self-government for Nigeria. The first motion for self-government which sought independence for Nigeria in 1956, was tabled in 1953 by foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activist, Chief […]
Britain and the EU signed a post-Brexit trade deal on Wednesday, sealing their drawn-out divorce in the closing hours before the UK definitively ends its half-century European experiment. Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the heads of the European Commission and European Council, smiled at a brief televised ceremony to put their names to […]
Man identified as Muhammed, on Thursday morning, set himself on fire in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state. Daily Trust gathered that the incident occurred around 7:30 am. Misbahu Usman, a commercial motorcycle rider who witnessed the incident, told Daily Trust that the victim arrived in Peace and Reconciliation Garden, in Jos as […]
For the second time, a Nigerian lawyer and a major mobiliser of the #EndSARS movement, Modupe Odele, said she was intimidated by the Nigeria Immigration (NIS) on Wednesday as she travelled out of the country. Mrs Odele mobilised her over 200,000 followers on Twitter during the October protests against police brutality and the excesses of […]
United States President-elect, Mr Joe Biden has appointed a Nigeria-American, Osaremen Okolo his COVID Policy Advisor. This is coming weeks after Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo was announced as the assistant secretary of treasury designate. According to a statement from the Bide-Harris Transition Committee, Okolo, whose parents came from Edo State is one of the coordinators for […]
